Documentaries

As a young boy Zé left his Cape Verdean fishing village for a better life in Sweden. Years later he returns to find his village transformed, and the beach where he once played football has disappeared. His family now digs sand from the ocean floor to sell as cheap concrete, because fishing no longer puts enough food on the table.Sandgrains is a crowdfunded and crowdsourced documentary.

Leoncio Monteagudo is a porter on the Inca Trail to the ruin citadel of Machu Picchu in South America. Working conditions are deplorable, but the porters have organized in a struggle for basic rights. Porters of the Inca Trail tells their story of the world famous adventure trek.

In England squatting is unlawful but not illegal. The legal system goes back to a law of the Fifteenth Century and even though the political actions to erode the “squatters’ rights” have been many, the famous Section Six can still be seen on the doors and windows of many English squats. Take Over follows a group of Brighton squatters as they resist the eviction order from an abandoned church.

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Ms Kalashnikov

In contemporary African wars women continue to play a variety of crucial roles, and yet they remain invisible to the world. Only a handful of researchers and journalists have appreciated the importance of women in these conflicts, and the way in which gender stereotypes continue to mask their involvement.

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East Europe Transition

Journalist Andrew Connelly travels from Budapest to Baku overland to document the political and social trends of the Balkans and Caucasus, some rapidly shifting, others sadly stagnating; building a picture of a region still haunted by its Communist past.

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Afloat Adrift

Afloat Adrift is a short dramatic comedy film centering around Mei; a Chinese immigrant housewife stuck in her own version of no man’s land in an isolated house in Southern England.

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Sandgrains

Zé left his Cape Verdean fishing village for a better life in Sweden. Years later he returns to find his village transformed, the beach where he once played football had disappeared. His family now digs sand from the ocean floor to sell as cheap concrete, because fishing no longer puts enough food on the table.